Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by boplicity on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:36PM (#30881757)

I have to strongly disagree with this assessment,for a simple reason: There are many different public school organizations, not just one, with a vast array of outcomes among each organization. Sure, there certainly are some bad school systems, but it is very hard to generalize over such a massive system.

The total salary of all of the public school teachers in the US is probably well over $150 billion. That's the market cap of many "huge" companies.

Just saying -- it's easy to criticize when you're overgeneralizing a huge dataset based on one subset of that dataset.

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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by killjoywashere on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:57PM (#30881987)

My experience with private schools where the teachers aren't unionized suggests the non-unionized situation can be even more fraught. Chaotic, manipulative principals, skeevy board members, low pay in exchange for "prestige", etc.

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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by jfjfkfmf on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:04PM (#30882061)

My experience with public schools includes sexual abusers keeping their jobs due to union protection.

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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by abhiyerra on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:50PM (#30883176)

My direct experience is the more tenured teachers not showing up at all. Spent a significant amount of my high school roaming the halls because some of the teachers didn’t show up. This was opposed to the younger teachers who cared and put the work in, but also had second jobs, etc.

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